By Dave Gram Source: Boston Globe September 25, 2007 (through Bishop accountability.org) GUILDHALL, Vt. — Molested as a child, a 23-year-old man wept in court Monday as he confronted the former church teacher who abused him when he was 11, telling him: “Don’t you ever do it to anyone else.” John W. Thomas, 37, of…
This documentary was aired on French TV in 2007. The original title, translated reads: Children under cults mind control. It is in total more than 1 hour long with the first section on the 12 Tribes being in total 32 mns and the rest being dedicated to investigate the Jehovah’s Witnesses organization. The whole documentary…
Erika Spaet April 10, 2007 Suzanne Watin was a Jewish dental hygienist from Union, N.J. She and her now ex-husband had their daughter late in life, moved around often and always had enough money; they lived an ordinary, upper-middle class life together. But when fate knocked on Watin’s door six years ago, she decided the…
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New York Post John Doyle and Hasani Gittens August 23, 2006 The brother and sister charged with a series of bank robberies in Manhattan have a strange and troubled history, The Post has learned. Joe Kirby, 23, and his sister, Shemini, 20, told friends that they spent their formative years being psychologically abused in a…
Boy Came Forward To Church Elders In 1997 TheChamplainChannel.com/February 11, 2005 Island Pond, Vt. — Police charged a former member of the Twelve Tribes Church in Island Pond with molesting a young boy. John Thomas, 32, is accused of sexually abusing at least one of the children at the church in the Northeast Kingdom. Church…
Source: The Caledonian-Record/February 10, 2005 By James Jardine St. Johnsbury Vermont — John W. Thomas of Savoy, Mass., is scheduled to be arraigned in Caledonia District Court on one count of sexual assault on a minor and three counts of lewd and lascivious conduct with a child. The state alleges Thomas sexually abused four children,…
Why I left Elbert Eugene Spriggs “Twelve Tribes Communes” The reasons why a past member left the Twelve Tribes Cult. The past member that wrote this has wished to remain anonymous. Formerly known as: Northeast Kingdom Community Church, Church of God, The New Apostolic Order in Messiah, The Church in Island Pond, the Twelve Tribes…
Cheryl L ex-member experiences I first encountered “Reya” (Bill Johnson) and “Olah” (Kathy Johnson) after reading a newspaper article describing the Twelve Tribes communal group in Lakeview, N.Y. in October of 1995. Upon meeting the larger household with whom they lived, Twelve Tribes members greeted me with smiles, hugs, compliments, tea, Hebrew dancing and testimonies….
Source: Broward Palm Beach, New Times, 3rd June 2004 Jeff Leonard, looking good in stripes by Eric Alan Barton 3 June 2004 On a spring morning two years ago, Kimberly Peck saw something shocking in the hut where her daughters were sleeping. Peck, then a member of the Twelve Tribes religious cult, lived with her…